Religion in Iowa
The name for a person who does religious work in countries.
missionary
A person who comes to a country to live there permanently.
Immigrants
This means "beautiful land" and is an American Indian word.
Iowa
Another name for dried cow manure.
Cow chips
Iowa City
This saint wasn't really Irish.
Saint Patrick
Descendent
People that wonder from place to place for food and water and don't have a permanent home.
Nomads
A way to sell an item to the highest bidder.
Auction
This type of limestone was used to build the capital building.
Devonian
Religious groups that settled in Iowa while they planned to move West.
Mormons
Sending children away to work for another family so they can make money for their family.
Hiring out.
A group of family members who are all related and are part of a larger tribe.
Clan
This type of house was built because trees were scarce.
Sod House
This is the location of Iowa's current capital.
Des Moines
These religious leaders were very well educated.
Congregationalists
This group met every week to conserve the German culture found in Iowa.
Turner Society
This is a American Indian tribe's name means "red Earth people."
This type of grass helped fuel the early settler's fires.
Prairie grass
This famous architect was selected first to design the Iowa Capitol building.
John Francis Rague
A region or district under the care of a Catholic bishop.
Diocese
In Norwegian this is called "western home."
Vesterheim
A group of men who thought they have the power to heal sick people.
Grand Medicine Society
Some early settler's used this right so they didn't have to buy an unoccupied piece of land.
Squatter's rights
Iowa's first territorial governor
Robert Lucas